Jigsaw, an UK-based AI company that Stephen Scanlan and Travis Leon founded, raised 15 million US Dollars through a Series A round that Exor Ventures led (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company also attracted the angel investors’ resources of Linklaters, Morgan Stanley and KKR India Asset Finance. Jigsaw retained The Growth Stage and will invest the raised proceeds in its proprietary technology and organic growth.
Crédit Agricole Italia’s startups ecosystem Le Village by CA will open Le Village by CA Sicilia, a Catania-based acceleration programme that will launch Call4Startup (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The programme will allow 10 startups that will get an acceleration support ahead of the hub’s opening in 2024. The application deadline is 31 May, Friday. In May203, Andrea Riva, the head of Capital markets & Open Innovation of Crédit Agricole, said to BeBeez that the firm was mulling to open further hubs of Le Village by CA in the South of Italy on top of the headquarter in Milan and the bureaus in Parma, Padua and Sondrio. The programme already supported more than 150 startups. Elita Schillaci, a professor of Economics at Catania University and independent board member of Crédit Agricole Assicurazioni, will head Sicily’s local board of Le Village by CA.
